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And the award for most bitter and unbalanced book review goes to…Jam and Idleness!

Literary awards, it would be shamelessly and untruthfully hyperbolic for me to claim, are the bane of my reading life. But they do irk me something dreadful. I realized a long time ago that the books that I have read that have won major literary awards tend to be books that I would ultimately rather…

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Reading

Brook:

Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present, Robyn Maynard

The Forty Rules of Love, Elif Shafak

Cane, Jean Toomer

Colleen:

Furthermore, Damon Runyon

The Newcomes, W. M. Thackeray

Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion, Jia Tolentino

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